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1	1	SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 220
2	2	WHEREAS, The year 2019 marks the 46th anniversary of the
3	3	year the Honorable Mickey Leland was sworn in as a member of the
4	4	Texas House of Representatives; and
5	5	WHEREAS, Born in Lubbock in 1944, George Thomas "Mickey"
6	6	Leland III grew up in Houston's Fifth Ward and earned his
7	7	bachelor's degree in pharmacy at Texas Southern University;
8	8	while working as an instructor of clinical pharmacy at his alma
9	9	mater, he developed an educational outreach campaign offering
10	10	medical screenings to low-income residents; and
11	11	WHEREAS, Congressman Leland was only 28 when he won
12	12	election to the Texas House of Representatives from District 88,
13	13	then located in Harris County; he quickly gained renown as a
14	14	champion of health care for the poor, and he helped secure
15	15	passage of legislation giving those in need access to affordable
16	16	generic drugs; a member of numerous committees, he became the
17	17	first African American to serve on the Senate-House Conference
18	18	Committee as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, and
19	19	he was vice chair of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform; and
20	20	WHEREAS, In 1978, following three terms in the Texas
21	21	Legislature, Congressman Leland was elected to the United States
22	22	House of Representatives; he founded the House Select Committee on
23	23	Hunger and helped establish the National Commission on AIDS; in
24	24	addition, he secured passage of bills providing fresh produce to
25	25	low-income families and medical clinics and food to the homeless;
26	26	he also served as chair of the Black Caucus, and he won praise from
27	27	the State Department for his successful efforts in arranging the
28	28	release of four Americans imprisoned in Cuba; tragically, he lost
29	29	his life in a plane crash in 1989, while leading a relief mission to
30	30	a refugee camp in Ethiopia; his contributions have since continued
31	31	to resonate, and over the years, a number of facilities and
32	32	initiatives have been renamed in his honor, among them a federal
33	33	building in Houston, the Texas Commission on Environmental
34	34	Quality's Internship Program, and the Mickey Leland College
35	35	Preparatory Academy for Young Men; moreover, the Barbara
36	36	Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern
37	37	University celebrates the contributions of these two
38	38	groundbreaking representatives from the 18th Congressional
39	39	District; and
40	40	WHEREAS, Mickey Leland demonstrated a tremendous commitment
41	41	to his fellow Texans and to vulnerable people the world over, and
42	42	his legacy remains a source of inspiration to all; now, therefore,
43	43	be it
44	44	RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 86th
45	45	Legislature, hereby commemorate the 46th anniversary of Mickey
46	46	LelandbeingsworninasamemberoftheTexasHouse
47	47	of Representatives.
48	48	Miles
49	49	________________________________
50	50	President of the Senate
51	51	I hereby certify that the
52	52	above Resolution was adopted by
53	53	the Senate on February 19, 2019.
54	54	________________________________
55	55	Secretary of the Senate
56	56	________________________________
57	57	Member, Texas Senate